The ELM Is Smoking Crack

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

Thanks for the good input.

However my point was that the civilian air traffic control has radar data, thus if there is any aircraft in the area that does not provide secondary data, then the civilian air traffic controller could use radar data available to him to shepherd the civilian aircraft to safety.

That's true but I think you're underestimating exactly how much work that involves. Quite frankly we have more than enough to do already without having to vector traffic around unidentified and unpredictable armed aircraft.

Think of driving the wrong way down 4 highways at once. And one guy has to move the cars out of the way.